Broom.



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BROOM.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 2a, 1908.

G. W. DUVALL.

GEORGE W. DUVALL, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO LEE BROOM & DUSTER COMPANY,

OF LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, A CORPORATION OF IOWA.

BROOM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented March 16, 1909.

Application filed April 23, 1908. Serial No. 428,774

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. DUVALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Davenport, in the county of Scott and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Brooms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in brooms, and more particularly to certain novel means for securely holding the binding wire that forms the finish to the neck or girth in position, and to protect the same against displacement, and it consists of the novel combination and arrangement of the several parts of the device as hereinafter described, illustrated in the drawing, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the manufacture of brooms it is the usual practice to dampen the broom straw before winding it upon the broom-handle, to render it pliable, so that it may be easily bent or turned to any desired position without being broken. In this dampened condition the straw is placed in bunches upon the handle, and secured thereto by means of wire or otherwise, and this process is continued until the broom is finished, and when so finished the straw is tightly bound to the handle. The straw, however, being damp is considerably swollen when it is wound up into the broom, and as it dries out a greater or less shrinkage thereof occurs, thus permitting the wire binding it to the handle to loosen up, become displaced, and permits the said straw portion of the broom to loosen up rendering the broom defective and objec tionable.

By means of my present invention this displacement of the wire, although it may become loose, will be prevented by means of suitable plates or strips that cover and hold it in place, and at the same time protects the wire wound upon the neck or girth of the broom. These strips are secured in position by having their respective ends secured beneath one or more of the wire wrappings while the portions of the strips or plates between their ends rest tightly upon the inter mediate wire wrappings and hold the same firmly in the position in which they were originally wound, and prevent any slipping or displacement thereof, either by reason of the shrinkage of the straw, or from knocks or blows against said Wrappings during the use of the broom.

I11 the drawing: Figure 1 1s a side elevat1on of my improved broom. Fig. 2 is an edge elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central section of the neck or girth portion of the broom, showing my improvement applied thereto.

Referring to the. several views, the nuneral 1 indicates the handle; 2 the neck or girth, and 3 the straw-portion of the broom.

In the practice of my invention, the broom-straw is secured to the handle in the usual manner. W hen the straw is firmly secured to the handle I cover the neck or girth 2 of the broom with a closely coiled wire which practically forms a solid covering. In placing this coil of wire l on the neck or girth of the broom I also combine therewith strips or plates 6. are held on the neck or girth of the broom by having their respective ends secured under some of the coils thereof, thus allow ing the intermediate portions of said plates to rest on the surface of said coiled wire of said neck or girth, to securely hold the same against displacement should the straw of the neck or girth shrink. The end of the wire forming the cover for the neck or girth is secured in position by a nail, staple, or other suitable means. The strips or plates 6, as before stated, are designed to securely hold the coils of wire on the neck or girth to the position in which they were originally wound, and to protect them against displacement. These plates, while serving the purpose of holding the coiled wire in position on the neck or girth, may contain the name of the manufacturer, or the trade-names of the brooms, or any other desired inscription. The wire coils of the neck or girth are continued down onto the handle of the broom for the purpose of providing a neater finish to the broom. That portion of the wire wrapping that is continued upon the handle may be provided with a plurality of stays or braces 7, preferably two in number, and made of metal. These stays or braces are arranged vertically and are secured in position with their inward bent ends, which are forced into the The plates 6 handle, as shown in Fig. 3. These braces and having their respective ends secured 10 serve to protect the 0011s on the handle, and under coils above and below said lntermeto hold them in position. diate coils, as and for the purpose set forth. Having thus described my invention What In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, I claim is: in presence of two Witnesses.

In a broom, a closely Wire-coiled covered GEORGE WV. DUVALL. neck or girth having in combination there- Witnesses with metallic strips or plates setting over J. W. KINNEMANN, and tightly against the intermediate coils WM. 0. BURRMANN. 

